EXCLUSIVE: Chinese State Researchers Mapped How To Target “Susceptible” Americans And Influence Their Votes
One Chinese military paper calls it a “brain-control weapon” for selecting “susceptible individuals with high influence value.”
CHINA FILES
Natalie Winters: China & CCP Reporting
Chinese Communist Party influence and foreign-influence networks have been among the most persistent themes in Natalie Winters' reporting, from her National Pulse work through War Room and her current independent investigations.
Winters' China reporting frequently focuses on the United Front, exchange organisations, elite cultivation, media and academic relationships, scientific collaboration, political networks and the ways Beijing-linked groups seek access or influence abroad.
That subject has remained active in 2026. Recent Substack investigations have examined programmes that sponsored American journalists' travel to China, political training involving Communist Party USA figures, Chinese-linked organisations and U.S. institutions, and continuing scientific collaboration involving coronavirus researchers.
In December 2025, Winters also interviewed Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim at Taiwan's Presidential Office. Taiwan's own Presidential Office described Winters as a War Room co-host and White House correspondent and recorded the interview's focus on geopolitics, cross-strait relations, defence, U.S.-Taiwan relations and investment.
Recent China-focused investigations
Direct links to selected original Natalie Winters Substack reports.
AUG 10, 2026
Journalist exchange and influence programme
An investigation into a China-linked programme that sponsored American journalists and arranged access to Chinese institutions and officials.
READ ON SUBSTACK → AUG 11, 2026Coronavirus research after Wuhan
Reporting on Shi Zhengli's current laboratory work and continued connections involving NIH-backed researchers.
READ ON SUBSTACK → JUL 30, 2026CCP political training programme
An investigation into political education and exchange involving Communist Party USA figures and the Chinese Communist Party's International Department.
READ ON SUBSTACK →Taiwan interview
A rare example where the subject of the interview also provides an official institutional record.
CHINA BEAT · ARCHIVE CLIP
A beat that has been there for years
An earlier War Room clip on Chinese warfare sits alongside a later body of reporting that grew into interviews and detailed investigations.
TAIWAN INTERVIEW →Independent confirmation
Sources outside Winters' own platforms documenting the Taiwan interview and her long-running China speciality.
Office of the President, Taiwan: Hsiao Bi-khim activity recordLists the interview with Natalie Winters
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Taiwan Presidential Office: War Room interview releaseDecember 2, 2025
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Claremont Institute biographyNotes her focus on CCP infiltration in America
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War Room Natalie Winters archiveClips and transcripts across China and geopolitics
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